Exhibit 99.1

          TAL INTERNATIONAL GROUP, INC. ANNOUNCES DIRECTOR RESIGNATION

    PURCHASE, N.Y., Dec. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- TAL International Group,
Inc. (NYSE: TAL) announced today that A. Gary Klesch has resigned from its Board
of Directors to pursue other business opportunities. Brian M. Sondey, Chief
Executive Officer of TAL International Group Inc., stated that "Gary became a
director in November 2004 in connection with the acquisition of TAL from AEGON
NV and served as Chairman of TAL's Board of Directors from November 2004 until
October 2005. While we regret losing Gary's contributions to our board, we are
grateful to him for his service and wish him well in his future endeavors."

    About TAL International Group, Inc.

    TAL is one of the world's largest lessors of intermodal freight containers
with 19 offices in 12 countries and approximately 199 third party container
depot facilities in 40 countries. The Company's global operations include the
acquisition, leasing, re-leasing and subsequent sale of multiple types of
intermodal containers. TAL's fleet consists of over 624,000 containers
representing approximately one million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). This
places TAL among the world's largest independent lessors of intermodal
containers as measured by fleet size.

SOURCE  TAL International Group, Inc.
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    /CONTACT:  Jeffrey Casucci, Vice President, Treasury and Investor Relations
of TAL International Group, Inc., +1-914-697-2900 /
    /Web site:  http://www.talinternational.com /
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